From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Engine failure, speculating on the cause being oil temperature and a damaged supercharger from rough water operation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179b\2\ img002 | |
| Date | 1st October 1932 | |
| -2- Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/WJ.1.10.32. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} The oil which was used was Castor Oil and we think a possible solution of this failure was the oil being too cold and not sufficient getting through to the articulated wrist pin. The starboard engine on which the throttle control failed we also find has a damaged supercharger. The supercharger is quite out of action and although we have not been able to look inside, must be badly broken up. This is the engine in which the throttle controls failed on both occasions. A possible cause for the supercharger failure is that we know the boat was taken on very rough water. We have heard from people who saw the boat that at times the propellers were out of the water, however much this caused the engine to race the supercharger being up 9/1 it would get a very punishing time. The drive has never been tested or expected to drive under those conditions. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||